Identification of areas vulnerable to soil erosion risk in India using GIS methods

Biswas, H.; Raizada, A.; Mandal, D.; Kumar, S.; Srinivas, S.; Mishra, P. K.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-6-1247-2015

Articles | Volume 6, issue 4

Solid Earth, 6, 1247–1257, 2015

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-6-1247-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Solid Earth, 6, 1247–1257, 2015

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-6-1247-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 6, issue 4

Research article 30 Nov 2015

Research article | 30 Nov 2015

Identification of areas vulnerable to soil erosion risk in India using GIS methods

H. Biswas et al.

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RC C750: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Jun 2015
- AC C987: 'Response to comments on “Identification of vulnerable areas to soil erosion risk in India using GIS methods” by H. Biswas et al. (Anonymous Referee # 1)', Hrittick Biswas, 16 Aug 2015
RC C851: 'Reviewers comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Jul 2015
- AC C989: 'Response to comments on “Identification of vulnerable areas to soil erosion risk in India using GIS methods” by H. Biswas et al. (Anonymous Referee # 2)', Hrittick Biswas, 16 Aug 2015

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The paper presents a simple and novel approach to prioritize districts (or subregions) of a state (or region) for implementing soil conservation measures through computation of weighted soil erosion risk (WSER), by deducting soil loss tolerance limit values from soil erosion rates. WSER values obtained for the districts of Telangana state, India, led us to identify Adilabad, Warangal, and Khammam as the districts calling for the urgent attention of policymakers for natural resource conservation.